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Title: Application Of Flow Computers For Measurement And Control
Author: Kenneth Kendall
Source: American Gas Association 1970
Year Published: 1970
Abstract: The word computer is one which is drastically overworked in our language and implies some mysterious and marvelous device to solve all problems. The Chinese had computers centuries ago, and for them the word was abacus. All of us utilized computers in our college engineering courses, but our term at that time was slide rule. Many of us, after college, advanced to a more elaborate computer known as a calculator, and, today, even the calculators are more marvelous and silent since electrons are doing the counting. There are two basic types of computers, analog and digital, and examples in the previous description would include the analog computer, known as the slide rule, and the digital computer, known as a calculator. In simplest terms, analog techniques are based on how much, while digital techniques are based on how many.

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